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MEMBER ALERT:

Congregational meeting February 16th after morning worship service.

AGENDA FOR CONGREGATIONAL MEETING 

• Opening prayer:

• Financial report (5 minutes) - Riley Lewis o 2024 Financial Report o 2025 Projected Spending o Why do we need Trustees?

• Ministry information - Rubén Davila & Nick Mensah o Preachers we support

• Building Maintenance - Jonathan Navales

• Website - Nick Lodowski

• Education and VBS - Arnoldo Velasquez • Preacher Search - Riley Lewis • Spiritual Health - Kwaku Dayie • Questions and Answers - All

• Election of Trustees (5 minutes) - Riley Lewis

• Closing Prayer

Spanish men looking for workers, February 15th at 8:30 am and monthly every 3rd Saturday at the church building. This meeting is designed to prepare and encourage men to work and be ready to work in the ministries of the church and the needs that exist. See Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez for additional information.

Men’s Bible study: February 21st, 7 p.m. at the church building. Volunteers are needed to lead/facilitate future Bible studies. Contact Bob Greene!

Bible study for the ladies on the English-speaking side: Saturday, February 22nd at 10 a.m. via Zoom. For additional information, contact Winnie Sylvester or Rosemary Dayie.

Bible study for ladies on the Spanish-speaking side: March 8 th at 5 p.m. at the church building.

Bilingual youth activity night (our youth and young adults) Friday, February 21st at 7 pm and monthly every 3rd Friday at the home of Arnoldo Velásquez. Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez oversee organizing the activities.

Spanish men evangelization and coffee with Christ - Saturday, March 8th at 8:30 am and monthly every 2nd Saturday at Panera Bread 6633 Ritchie Hwy, Glen Burnie, MD 21061 This is a Bible study to strengthen and encourage men spiritually as men, as husbands, and to prepare them as servants of God. Rubén Davila and Arnoldo Velásquez are organizers of the activities

Sign-up sheets are on the bulletin board for hall monitors, Sunday morning greeters, meal contact persons and Bible class substitutes and assistants on Sundays and Wednesdays.

Bible class teachers and assistants are needed, see Arnoldo Velásquez or one of the elders if you desire to serve in this capacity

Our Spanish-speaking members are studying the book of Leviticus on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 8pm via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87486845973?pwd=bXdkY2Mwc25SWCtYaV VyRWVxdk RuUT09      ID: 874 8684 5973 Passcode: iglesia.    Contact Rubén Davila or Arnoldo Velásquez for more information. 

Pray for our shepherds and the flock (our congregation): that we may all submit to the Lord's will and His design for His Church that He purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28, 31; 1 Thessalonians 5:11-24; 1 Timothy 3:1-7; 5:1-21; Titus 1:6-15; 1 Peter 5:1-11).

Pray for the congregation in Ecuador, for the security of that country and for all people who are suffering through no fault of their own.

MEMORY VERSES

Exodus 19:5-6: Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; 6 and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel.” NASB1995

Romans 12:1: Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. NASB1995

But I Don’t Feel Holy

I don’t know if it is just me, but I am hearing a lot of emphasis on how we feel. I hear phrases like, “I’m just not feeling it,” “I don’t feel like it,” or my personal favorite, “Do whatever makes you feel happy.” While I am the last person to minimize feelings, there comes a point when it is not about what you feel. It is about doing what is right or what needs to be done. Duty and obligation are replaced with feelings and self-entitlement.

Look at 1 Peter 1:14-16. “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, ‘YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.’” This passage calls us to be holy, not feel. We are to be holy in our behavior.

Holiness is the idea of being set apart. Items that were used in temple worship were holy because they were set apart or consecrated for the service to God. You could not use anything common or that was used in day-to-day life in service to God. So, when Peter writes later in the same letter, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellences of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9), he is stating that we are a people set apart or consecrated for service to God. Holiness should be seen in the light of how we live and in our actions. It is not something that we feel but something that we are. When was the last time you had a birthday and you thought to yourself, “Yeah, I feel __ years old.”? Never, even though you are in fact __ years old.

If you are doing the things that show your obedience to God and diligently trying to please Him and follow His commands, then you are different. You are not some common person following your own lusts and your own wants. Peter says it like this, “Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ“ (1 Pet. 1:13). We should be preparing our minds for action, be obedient children and not conformed to this world. This verse says that our only hope at being holy is through the grace of God. Another way of looking at this is in 1 John 1:7. “But, if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” If we are obedient to the will of God and behave in a “set apart” manner, then, by the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, we are able to be holy. ~ Josh Blackmer~ https://www.pblcoc.org/bulletin-articles/but-i-dont-feel-holy/

 

 

Upcoming Events

  1. Sunday AM Adoración En Español
    Sunday, February 16th, 20259:00am
  2. Sun AM Bible Class English/Clase Bíblica
    Sunday, February 16th, 202510:00am
  3. Sunday AM Worship English speaking
    Sunday, February 16th, 202511:00am
  4. Sun PM Worship
    Sunday, February 16th, 20256:00pm
  5. Wed PM Bible Class English/Clase de biblia
    Wednesday, February 19th, 20257:30pm
  6. Sunday AM Adoración En Español
    Sunday, February 23rd, 20259:00am
  7. Sun AM Bible Class English/Clase Bíblica
    Sunday, February 23rd, 202510:00am
  8. Sunday AM Worship English speaking
    Sunday, February 23rd, 202511:00am
  9. Sun PM Worship
    Sunday, February 23rd, 20256:00pm
  10. Wed PM Bible Class English/Clase de biblia
    Wednesday, February 26th, 20257:30pm